Invoking Helproutine for other field

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1

Is possible to do that ?

Scheme:
Field1 _ (HE=XXX) ------> F1 -----> invoke YYY for Field2
Field2 ___ (HE=YYY)

Field1 (A1)
Field2 (A3)

2

If you want to invoke YYY for Field1 in any case, why not set HE=YYY instead of HE=XXX ?

3

Because Filed1 is A1 type and Field2 is A3. I can’t define helproutine for Field1 as YYY, because YYY is for A3 field.

I need to change Field2 with helproutine YYY but through Field1. Field2 have to be hidden.

4

You don’t need 2 helproutines then, simply put (HE=‘XXX’,Field2) on Field1, this passes Field2 as a parameter to the helproutine and allows you to modify it from there.

5

Oh thanks;)

And one more thing… how to invoke helproutine with parameters from a program ?

6

You can’t “call” a help routine from a program, just force it to be executed with REINPUT USING HELP MARK *Field1 in which case the helproutine is executed with all parameters just like it does when you press PF1.

7

Or try SET CONTROL ‘Jyyy’, where yyy is the helproutine name. The parameters can be stacked, or AIV, or a number of other options.

8

Well, yes, but %J doesn’t invoke a “regular” field help routine, if that doesn’t matter, it may be an option.